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The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3) QUOTES

The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3) QUOTES

1 " The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

2 " It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

3 " Arthur thought it better to make sure that the scattered Saxon forces could not re-form, at least while he came south for his father's burial."
"He is young,"she said, "for such a charge."
I smiled. "But ready for it, and more than able. Believe me, it was like seeing a young falcon take to the air, or a swan to the water. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

4 " Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

5 " A new moon lay on its back, and stars were out. Here, away from lights and sounds of town or village, the night was deep, the black sky stretching, fathomless, away among the spheres to some unimaginable world where gods walked, and suns and moons showered down like petals falling. Some power there is that draws men's eyes and hearts up and outward, beyond the heavy clay that fastens them to earth. Music can take them, and the moon's light, and, I suppose, love, though I had not known it then, except in worship. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

6 " Not as others had wanted to learn, for power or excitement, or for the prosecution of some enmity or private greed; but because he had seen, darkly with a child's eyes, how the gods move with the winds and speak with the sea and sleep in the gentle herbs; and how God himself is in the sum of all that is on the face of the lovely earth. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

7 " In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you are alive, and back with me here. By the great God of heaven, I have you back with me. What should I fear now? "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

8 " Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

9 " This is the way of love, I find; one longs so fervently for the beloved to achieve the best ends that he is spared nothing. "

― Mary Stewart , The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)